Revolving cooking-stove



May 29, 1915.

DRAWING A careful search has been made this day for the original drawingor a photolithographic copy of the same,

for the purpose of reproducing the said drawing to form a part of thisbook, but at this time nothing can be found from which a reproductioncan be made.

Finis D. Morris,

Chief of Division E.

AWK.

" UNITED STATES PATENT 1 a Specification of Letters Patent No. 91,dated. November 28, 1836.

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To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, HENRY STANLEY, 0fPoultney, in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Revolving Cooking-Stoves, so called, andthe following is a description of my said invention, and improvement, itbeing an amended specification for a new patent in place of onesurrendered on account of its defective specification,

It consists of a fire room suitable to the size of the stove, and thestove may be of such size as to suit the purchaser. The fire room may bedifferently constructed for different kinds of fuel. If it is designedfor anthracite, or other coal the fire room should be lined with firebrick, and be furnished with suitable grates. The fire room is formed offour cast iron plates set upon, and partly covering another cast ironplate called the hearth or bottom; the back plate when intended for woodis made of two parts divided at or near the middle perpendicularly, andwhen intended for coal the back plate is divided at or near the middlehorizontally or lengthwise, the lower division is placed about one inchwithin the upper division, and has a projection attached to the wholelength of its upper edge, and running back so as to form a support forthe upper division, and also for the fire brick Which forms the back ofthe furnace. The upper edge of the plate is exposed to the action of thefire within the furnace for the purpose of increasing the quantity ofheat in the lower part of the tin oven, or roaster when placed in therear of the back The destructive effects of the heat upon the lowerdivision requires that it should be occasionally renewed, and to avoidexpense, and trouble of renewing the entire plate an opening is made ator near the upper edge of about two thirds the length, and one third thewidth of the plate. This opening is filled with another movable platewhich may be removed, and renewed at pleasure. In the hearth or bottomplate is formed a sink, or ash-pit partly covered by the fire room, andpartly by a sliding plate which acts as a damper, and regulates theheat.

A large circular plate is placed over the fire room, in such a mannerthat a segment of about one third the diameter of the circular plate isoccupied by the fire room.

This circular plate is covered another circular p'late'in diametersomething larger, which I- callthe cap or topof the stove, the latterbeing raised above the former at about one inch by rims forming a grooveon the upper side of the lower circular plate, and a corresponding rimon the. under side of the upper circular plate forming a tongue to runin said groove, on which tongue the up er plate rests.

n the center of the under plate is a small elevation in the form of acone With a perpendicular orifice into which a point projects from theupper plate in order to fix the center of the revolution. The revolutionis by a crank, and pinion, the cogs of the pinion work in correspondingones attached to the under side of the upper plate near the edge whichprojects beyond the r m. Through the lower circular plate, and directlyover the fire room is an opening through which the heat, and smoke pass,

the dimensions of the opening being described by that part of the fireroom which comes within the circular rim upon the edge of the undercircular plate. Opposite the fire room, and through the same plate isanother opening through which the smoke passes into the dividing fluesto which the pipe is attached to convey the smoke into the chimney. Thetop is pierced with holes of different sizes in number, and dimensionsto correspond with the size of the stove. These holes are to receiveboilers, and other cooking utensils or articles to be heated, and areraised by means of rims or collars from 2. to three inches deep, andconverging toward the top for the purpose of exposing a greater surfaceof the boilers or other articles to the action of the heat in itspassage from the fire room to the diveing flue, and also for the likepurpose, as well as for convenience in casting, and to strengthen theplate,

I make fiues on the under side of the cap or top plate leading fromboiler to boiler, and circuitously to the diveing flue as shown in thedrawing originally deposited in the Patent Otfice to which I refer as afurther illustration of the parts alluded to in this specification.Baking, roasting, &c. may be done in an 1ron oven, constructed in theback part of the stove in the common way or by tin reflectors suitablyconstructed, and placed upon the top and in front of the stove, and inrear of the fire room, and under that part of the circular plate whichis not occu- 4:. The rack, and pinion used to cause the pied by the fireroom. Summary revolution of the top plate.

All I claim as my invention is the combi- But I do not claim asnay-invention any 15 nation of any one or more of the following one ofthe above described parts or combina- 5 particulars in the said stove asabove detion of them independently of their connecscribed when combinedwith a revolving tion with a revolving top plate, neither do top plate vI claim the invention of a revolving top 1. The flues in the revolvingtop plate; plate. 2. The rims or collars surrounding the HENRY STANLEY.10 cooking utensils. VVitnesses;

3. The grooves as above described, and the THOMAS -P. JONES, tongue onwhich the upper plate rests. WM. THOMPSON.

